Chris Marnay

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About Chris Marnay

researched issues related to likely adoption patterns of microgrids, retired in June 2013 from Berkeley Lab, after an almost 30-yr relationship, led the Technology Evaluation, Modeling, and Assessment, and Deputy Led the Grid Integration Groups within the Energy Technologies Area. Also, operated the Microgrid Design of Mendocino (MgDoM) consultancy until 2020, and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) at McGill University over the winter of 2016-17, led the U.S-China Climate Change Working Group Smart Grid, Benefits Subgroup that successfully published a joint white paper on Smart Grid Assessment, was a founding member of the Consortium of Electric Reliability Solutions (CERTS) team, developed methods for the economic evaluation of microgrids leading to development of the DER Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM) first proposed at the turn of the century, conducts collaborative research with Berkeley Lab, and is a affiliate of the Energy and Resources group at U.C. Berkeley and Tianjin University, chaired ten annual Microgrid Symposiums http://microgrid-symposiums.org/(https://building-microgrid.lbl.gov/symposiums is not an authorized site), served as Convenor of the CIGRÉ C6.22 Working Group on the Microgrids Evolution Roadmap, led a project demonstrating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability of a ~40-vehicle fleet at Los Angeles Air Force Base participating the California Independent System Operator Regulation markets, and was a visiting professor at The University of Kitakyushu in 2006 under a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. specialties: economic evaluation of on-site generation, principles of microgrids, energy modeling, international microgrid research collaboration